Editorial: Happy Holidays
As Portland State’s Fall 2011 term draws to a close, we can’t help but reflect on the serious tone of much of the news we’ve printed since the academic year began. We reported on the strained...
View ArticleEditorial: Education, Inc.
As the calendar turned over to 2012, Portland State administrators wasted no time in flexing the considerable financial muscle that Senate Bill 242 has granted them. This bill relaxed the previous...
View ArticleHas student government gone too far?
The Student Fee Committee, an arm of ASPSU, is responsible for managing PSU’s student fees and setting the budgets for all fee-funded areas. These areas include ASPSU, student publications, and student...
View ArticleThe fight for a good education
For those wondering if their cries for a better higher education system are being heard: Wonder no longer. In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama called upon institutions of...
View ArticleAdding up the losses: the struggle for affordable higher education
With the passing of each week it has become increasingly clear that bureaucrats, legislators and educational administrators are little more than hedge fund operators willing to sell their stock in...
View ArticleEditorial: What has ASPSU done for you lately?
ASPSU’s recent rally in the park blocks was just the latest demonstration of how far your student government has strayed from making any kind of real impact for the students of Portland State. The...
View ArticleEditorial: Read no evil
A free and unrestrained press serves not only to cultivate a better-informed citizenry, but also to report on abuses of power and privilege that might otherwise go unknown and unpunished. It is for...
View ArticleEditorial: Peer pressure
It has been said that journalists write the first draft of history. Newspaper reporters operate under a tremendous amount of pressure in the hope of delivering a representative document of the moment....
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The Vanguard’s Official 2012 Election Endorsements
A vote for Obama is a vote for sanity The Vanguard has already spilled much ink this quarter over the regressive disaster a Romney-Ryan administration would look like, so let’s keep our focus on the...
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